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Four Troupes Play in the Park

Streb Extreme Action Company in the work “Human Fountain.”Credit
Tom Caravaglia

Fall for Dance is giving audiences more to fall for. This annual celebration opens its 10th year on Sept. 25 at City Center, and heralding it are free performances hosted by the Public Theater at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park this week. Fall for Dance resembles the New York Dance Festival, which from the 1960s to the ’80s regularly followed Shakespeare in the Park there.

Four noted companies are making exuberant appearances. New York City Ballet presents Ulysses Dove’s dynamic “Red Angels.” The Paul Taylor Dance Company works magic in Mr. Taylor’s “Esplanade,” which transforms ordinary movements into extraordinary ones. The songs to which Ronald K. Brown/Evidence will dance in “Upside Down” include one by Oumou Sangare proclaiming the destiny of a child to be in God’s hands. And in Elizabeth Streb’s “Human Fountain,” Streb Extreme Action Company will cascade from a three-story structure — now that’s one way to fall for dance. (8 p.m., Monday and Tuesday — rain date Wednesday — enter from 81 Street and Central Park West; free tickets (two to a person) at the Delacorte on performance days or shakespeareinthepark.org.)

A version of this article appears in print on September 15, 2013, on Page AR4 of the New York edition with the headline: Four Troupes Play In the Park. Order Reprints|Today's Paper|Subscribe